Svante Pääbo (1955)
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal…
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Bengt Holbek (1933)
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Phil Thompson (1954)
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